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Convention on relations between the Three Powers and the FRG (Bonn, 26 May 1952)
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| Document type |
Treaty
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Vertrag über die Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den Drei Mächten, in Bundesgesetzblatt 1955 II. 29.03.1954, No 3, pp. 61-67.
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| Keywords |
Federal Republic of Germany, France, national sovereignty, United Kingdom, United States
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| Caption |
Signed on 26 May 1952 by France, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the Bonn Convention grants sovereignty, albeit with some restrictions, to the FRG, once the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community enters into force.
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| Location in the digital library |
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1950–1956 The formation of the community of Europe >> The organisation of common defence >> Western European Union
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| Document extract |
Convention on relations between the Three Powers and the Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn, 26 May 1952)
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND and THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, of the one part, and THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, of the other part; WHEREAS a peaceful and prosperous European community of nations firmly bound to the other free nations of the world through dedication to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations can be attained only through united support and defence of the common freedom and the common heritage; WHEREAS it is the common aim of the Signatory States to integrate the Federal Republic on a basis of equality within the European Community itself included in a developing Atlantic Community; WHEREAS the achievement of a fully free and unified Germany through peaceful means and of a freely negotiated peace settlement, though prevented for the present by measures beyond their control, remains a fundamental and common goal of the Signatory States; WHEREAS the retention of the Occupation Statute with its powers of intervention in the domestic affairs of the Federal Republic is inconsistent with the purpose of integrating the Federal Republic within the European Community; WHEREAS the United States of America, the United Kingdo (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
'A chance to seize' from Tribune (19 May 1950)
Signing of the Single European Act (Luxembourg, 17 February 1986)
Carine Germond, France, Germany and Britain’s Second Application to the European Community (1966_1969)
Chronology of events in Suez (1951_1957)
'Community no threat to the Queen' from The Guardian (26 July 1971)
Cartoon by Mansbridge on France’s opposition to the free trade area (26 November 1958)
'Europe's stage armies' from The Guardian (17 October 1991)
Foundation of the FRG
U.S. Views on European Common Market and Free Trade Area (15 January 1957)
Cartoon by Opland on the Franco_German Treaty of Friendship (26 January 1963)
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